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TIL Sebastiane - a movie about life and death of Saint Sebastian in Roman times, was the first and only erotic movie that has dialogue entirely in Latin

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M77QB TIL that the US army awarded 20 Medals of Honor, the highest and most prestigious military decoration, to soldiers for their actions at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Many of those killed by US troops during the massacre were unarmed women and children.
jb1p TIL that three Stanford “rocket scientist” mechanical engineering PhD students invented a disease-detecting breath analyzer and were approved to test their prototype on human patients – all in under one year, an almost unfathomable feat in the medical device realm
8aG6V TIL in 1957, BBC pulled a April Fools prank by including a segment about spaghetti harvest in their news show Panorama, discussing how spaghetti is grown in fields in Switzerland. As a result, people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
AmZB TIL the equals sign was not invented until 1557 by a Welsh mathematician. He only invented it because he was fed up with the ‘tedious repetition’ of the phrase is 'is equal to’
wL7Z1 TIL that Stevie Nicks is the only woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TWICE. Once for Fleetwood Mac and a second time for her solo career.